ABSTRACT
Without adequate protection to deal with the psychosis, recovery is unlikely and the grave threat to the authentic self will persist. No matter how insistent psychotic thinking is, provided that it does not impose suicide as a way of saving the subject's life, nonpsychotic thinking subsists and may become accessible. Crucial to the outcome of work is a realization by the nonpsychotic personality of the subject that the ally will not engage in any altercation with the psychosis. The obstacle is the deep-seated determination of the psychosis to control, berate and threaten the individual with apocalyptic visions of destruction if contact with the ally is not broken off. The mother had treated her daughter not as a daughter but as a substitute mother whose job it was to prevent the mother from leaving and therefore the daughter from dying.
